This is ambiguous, if the build directory has the same name as a
subcommand then we end up running the subcommand. It also means we have
a hard time adding *new* subcommands, because if it is a popular name of
a build directory then suddenly scripts that try to set up a build
directory end up running a subcommand instead.
The fact that we support this at all is a legacy design. Back in the
day, the "meson" program was for setting up a build directory and all
other tools were their own entry points, e.g. `mesontest` or
`mesonconf`. Then in commit fa278f351f we
migrated to the subcommand mechanism. So, for backwards compatibility,
we made those tools print a warning and then invoke `meson <tool>`. We
also made the `meson` tool default to setup.
However, we only warned for the other tools whose entry points were
eventually deleted. We never warned for setup itself, we just continued
to silently default to setup if no tool was provided.
`meson setup` has worked since 0.42, which is 5 years old this week.
It's available essentially everywhere. No one needs to use the old
backwards-compatible invocation method, but it continues to drag down
our ability to innovate. Let's finally do what we should have done a
long time ago, and sunset it.
This reverts commit 79c6075b56.
# Conflicts:
# docs/markdown/snippets/devenv.md
# mesonbuild/modules/python.py
# test cases/unit/91 devenv/test-devenv.py
PYTHONPATH cannot be reliably determined. The standard use case for
installing python modules with Meson is mixed pure sources (at least
`__init__.py`) and compiled extension_modules or configured files.
Unfortunately that doesn't actually work because python will not load
the same package hierarchy from two different directories, one a source
directory and one a (mandatory) out of tree build directory.
(It kind of can, but you need to do what this test case accidentally
stumbled upon, which is namespace packages. Namespace packages are a
very specific use case and you are NOT SUPPOSED to use them outside that
use case, so people are not going to use them just to circumvent Meson
devenv stuff as that would have negative install-time effects.)
Adding PYTHONPATH anyway will just lead to documentation commitments
which we cannot actually uphold, and confusing issues at time of use
because some imports *will* work... and some will *not*. The end result
will be a half-created tree of modules which just doesn't work together
at all, but because it partially works, users attempting to debug it
will spend time wondering why parts of it do import.
For any case where the automatic devenv would work correctly, it will
also work correctly to use `meson.add_devenv()` a single time, which is
very easy to manually get correct and doesn't provide any significant
value to automate.
In the long run, an uninstalled python package environment will require
"editable installs" support.
When the project instals GDB helper scripts, copy them into
meson-private directory with the right tree layout and write a .gdbinit
script to load them automatically.
Meson already works like that, except in do_copydir() that requires
absolute destdir. Better explicitly support that instead of leaving it
undefined and unconsistent.
This moves all the code into a class and call its run() method in a
thread. The class queues all logs to print them at the end to avoid
mixing output of multiple actions.
It requires at least one option argument, and the one that provides
"basic information" about the project is --projectinfo, so let's use
that to demo the command.
Fixes#8182
* doc: fix hotdoc misuse for dynamically generated content
hotdoc has a native include feature for including files inline. Use this
to generate one file for each dynamically generated code block, and
include that file in Commands.md; see:
https://hotdoc.github.io/syntax-extensions.html#smart-file-inclusion-syntax
This permits us to move back to using the in-tree version of the hotdoc
*.md sources, thus fixing the incorrect inclusion of "builddir/" in the
"Edit on github" links which resulted from using copies as the source.
Fixes#8061
* doc: call the dummy file a "stamp" as it is a better known term
Xavier Claessens
Eli Schwartz
Jussi Pakkanen
Xavier Claessens
Antonin Décimo
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